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Umbrella Academy Volume 2: Dallas Ltd. (2009)

by Gerard Way(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1595823441 (ISBN13: 9781595823441)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Dark Horse Books

series

The Umbrella Academy

review 1: 1. Another great comic!2. I liked it even better than the first. Why?Because I knew the characters more and felt invested. I loved the history that was weaved and explained in another way.3. I want more White Violin.4. I felt like the graphics were even better this time.5. Gerard Way's picture at the end reenacting Kennedy's death was morbid but awesome.6. Basically these are great. Read them.
review 2: Gerard Way's afterword that follows the main story reads:"[Dallas is] a story about guns, bombs, pie, television, disappointment, rebellion, and gods that look like cowboys. I had never planned on bringing the "children" to America, but this time that's exactly where they needed to be, because they needed a harsh dose of both fantasy and reality, and there's no ... morebetter place to get your fix than the good old USA."As the 2nd volume of the Umbrella Academy series, readers are given a much different experience than The Apocalypse Suite. Vanya has survived and slightly recovered from her catatonic state after being shot point blank in the head by #5. The family has deteriorated into complacency. #5 is central to Dallas and his past (or should we say, his adventures through the slipstream) is revealed to us in ways that catch up with him, as hinted in the first novel by the cronies in yellow jumpsuits with red hazmat masks he annihilates in a city diner. The children hold the fate of the world and President Kennedy in their hands. Beyond that, I'll say no more about plot specifics.Dallas is a great book that I've re-read a lot more than The Apocalypse Suite. However, I got the sense that the book began to borrow too frequently pop culture elements from Pulp Fiction, Platoon, and the Royal Tenenbaums/JD Salinger's Glasse family. I think that it took away from the original feel of the first which felt more phantasmagoric than a gritty save-the-world plot. Klaus, however, helped make the book for me as he may have perhaps shedded the most light on the dysfunctionality of the family. With America as a backdrop and Hardgreeves ever omnipresent - defying death with the neuroses the children received from his lack of parent - the series feels like it's layered, despite having a zany pace to it which I really do like. less

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